# Post ts_116177938351998839

- Post ID: `ts_116177938351998839`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-03-05T18:17:35.029Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> Trump, Zeldin roll back Obama-era climate change rule — cite savings of more than $3,800 per American: https://nypost.com/2026/02/12/us-news/trump-lee-zeldin-announce-largest-deregulatory-action-in-american-history/

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T07:48:23.664Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Deregulation News Share

This is a straightforward policy-promotion post sharing a New York Post article about rolling back Obama-era climate regulations, citing per-capita savings. Posted at 1:17 PM ET (likely Mar-a-Lago), this is a classic aide-produced content piece.

### Authorship
Business-hours posting, clean grammar, third-person reference ("Trump, Zeldin"), news-link sharing format — all hallmarks of staff (likely Scavino) content. No typos, no emotional reactivity, no ALL CAPS.

### Psychological Context
Notable that amid an active military conflict with Iran and late-night Jack Smith rants, this post returns to routine domestic policy messaging. This suggests parallel content streams: authentic emotional posts (late night, reactive) vs. scheduled policy communications (business hours, curated).

### Rhetorical Analysis
The "$3,800 per American" figure is a classic concretization technique — translating abstract policy into personal financial impact. Framing deregulation as "rolling back Obama-era" rules serves dual purpose: policy contrast and implicit criticism of predecessor.

### Clinical Significance
Minimal. This is maintenance-level content with no emotional valence or clinical markers worth noting.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Rolling back climate rule saves more than $3,800 per American" | **Mostly False** | The $3,800 figure is derived from simple division of the administration's claimed $1.3 trillion in savings by the US population (~340 million), yielding approximately $3,823 per person. This figure does not appear in any official EPA or White House communication — those sources cite $1.3 trillion total and $2,400 per vehicle. The $3,800 per-capita framing appears to originate with the NY Post headline and was picked up by some conservative outlets.

More critically, the underlying $1.3 trillion figure itself has been found misleading by multiple independent analyses:

1) One-sided accounting: The $1.3 trillion represents only the gross compliance costs of vehicle emissions standards spread over 28 years (2027-2055). It deliberately excludes all benefits — fuel savings, reduced maintenance costs, health improvements from cleaner air, and climate benefits. FactCheck.org titled their analysis "EPA's misleading claim of $1.3 trillion in deregulatory savings." Yale economist Kenneth Gillingham said he "honestly can't recall another rulemaking where the focus was ONLY about the costs."

2) EPA's own data contradicts the headline: Bloomberg reported that the administration's own regulatory impact analysis, published in the Federal Register, shows the rollback's costs range from hundreds of billions on the low end to more than $1.4 trillion on the high end — potentially exceeding the claimed savings.

3) Disputed methodology: Independent experts uniformly criticized the EPA's calculations. NYU's Jason Schwartz called the approach "very biased and misleading." UC San Diego's Mark Jacobsen characterized the estimates as "deeply flawed." Specific problems include: EPA used only low oil price scenarios; half the scenarios count only 2.5 years of fuel savings; and the EPA simultaneously assumes manufacturers preserve vehicle performance while adding costs for alleged performance losses (double-counting).

4) Independent cost estimates: Resources for the Future found health damages from the rollback are 2.3-4 times greater than avoided compliance costs. The Biden-era EPA had estimated the emissions standards provided $200 billion in health benefits and $1.6 trillion in climate benefits, yielding $2 trillion in net benefits. The Environmental Defense Fund estimated the repeal could cause 58,000 additional premature deaths and 37 million more asthma attacks through 2055.

5) Misleading per-capita framing: Even accepting the $1.3 trillion at face value, dividing a 28-year cumulative figure by the current population to produce a per-person number is misleading — it implies each American receives a one-time windfall, when the actual impact is spread unevenly over nearly three decades and applies primarily to new vehicle purchasers.

In summary: The administration did claim $1.3 trillion in savings, and dividing by the population roughly yields $3,800. But the underlying figure counts only costs of regulation while ignoring all benefits, uses disputed assumptions, and is contradicted by the EPA's own detailed regulatory analysis showing costs may exceed savings. Independent economists and fact-checkers broadly characterize the claim as misleading. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- Third-person self-reference
- Business hours (1:17 PM ET)
- Clean formatting with URL
- No emotional language or caps
- Policy announcement format

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking

Sentiment: +0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- financial appeal to self-interest

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22; a recheck of the unverifiable ones last ran 2026-03-29._

> Rolling back climate rule saves more than $3,800 per American

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The $3,800 figure is derived from simple division of the administration's claimed $1.3 trillion in savings by the US population (~340 million), yielding approximately $3,823 per person. This figure does not appear in any official EPA or White House communication — those sources cite $1.3 trillion total and $2,400 per vehicle. The $3,800 per-capita framing appears to originate with the NY Post headline and was picked up by some conservative outlets.

More critically, the underlying $1.3 trillion figure itself has been found misleading by multiple independent analyses:

1) One-sided accounting: The $1.3 trillion represents only the gross compliance costs of vehicle emissions standards spread over 28 years (2027-2055). It deliberately excludes all benefits — fuel savings, reduced maintenance costs, health improvements from cleaner air, and climate benefits. FactCheck.org titled their analysis "EPA's misleading claim of $1.3 trillion in deregulatory savings." Yale economist Kenneth Gillingham said he "honestly can't recall another rulemaking where the focus was ONLY about the costs."

2) EPA's own data contradicts the headline: Bloomberg reported that the administration's own regulatory impact analysis, published in the Federal Register, shows the rollback's costs range from hundreds of billions on the low end to more than $1.4 trillion on the high end — potentially exceeding the claimed savings.

3) Disputed methodology: Independent experts uniformly criticized the EPA's calculations. NYU's Jason Schwartz called the approach "very biased and misleading." UC San Diego's Mark Jacobsen characterized the estimates as "deeply flawed." Specific problems include: EPA used only low oil price scenarios; half the scenarios count only 2.5 years of fuel savings; and the EPA simultaneously assumes manufacturers preserve vehicle performance while adding costs for alleged performance losses (double-counting).

4) Independent cost estimates: Resources for the Future found health damages from the rollback are 2.3-4 times greater than avoided compliance costs. The Biden-era EPA had estimated the emissions standards provided $200 billion in health benefits and $1.6 trillion in climate benefits, yielding $2 trillion in net benefits. The Environmental Defense Fund estimated the repeal could cause 58,000 additional premature deaths and 37 million more asthma attacks through 2055.

5) Misleading per-capita framing: Even accepting the $1.3 trillion at face value, dividing a 28-year cumulative figure by the current population to produce a per-person number is misleading — it implies each American receives a one-time windfall, when the actual impact is spread unevenly over nearly three decades and applies primarily to new vehicle purchasers.

In summary: The administration did claim $1.3 trillion in savings, and dividing by the population roughly yields $3,800. But the underlying figure counts only costs of regulation while ignoring all benefits, uses disputed assumptions, and is contradicted by the EPA's own detailed regulatory analysis showing costs may exceed savings. Independent economists and fact-checkers broadly characterize the claim as misleading.

Sources: https://www.factcheck.org/2026/03/epas-misleading-claim-of-1-3-trillion-in-deregulatory-savings/; https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-19/trump-says-climate-repeal-saves-1-3-trillion-the-epa-s-math-differs; https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-20/costs-of-epa-s-endangerment-finding-rollback-could-outweigh-savings; https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/president-trump-and-administrator-zeldin-deliver-single-largest-deregulatory-action-us; https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/02/president-trump-delivers-biggest-regulatory-relief-in-history/; https://www.rff.org/publications/issue-briefs/hidden-costs-of-repealing-epas-carbon-pollution-standards-consequences-for-the-environment-households-and-society/; https://atr.org/trump-admin-eliminates-endangerment-finding-saving-americans-1-3-trillion/; https://katv.com/news/nation-world/white-house-boasts-13t-savings-with-2400-off-new-cars-suvs-and-trucks-under-epa-plan-vehicles-environmental-protection-agency-president-donald-trump-lee-zeldin-greenhouse-gas-emissions-climate-change; https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/02/trump-zeldin-cut-obama-climate-rule-save-americans-3800-each/; https://www.npr.org/2026/02/11/nx-s1-5678273/trump-epa-climate-change-endangerment; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-rolls-back-landmark-policy-regulating-greenhouse-emissions; https://policyintegrity.org/tracking-regulatory-rollbacks

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- deregulation (80%)
- aide-written (90%)
- Obama contrast (50%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Kristi Noem is out at Homeland Security, announced in a gentle note an hour after a midday dump of weeks-old victory headlines**

He started with a warm farewell to retiring Montana Senator Steve Daines and a few friendly news links on Iran. Late in the morning he pushed hard for the SAVE America Act, demanding Republicans pass it "at the expense of everything else." Around midday came a burst of old good-news headlines about arrests in DC, pardons, mortgage rates and his planned White House ballroom, plus pictures of the ballroom and a new building. Early in the afternoon he announced that Senator Markwayne Mullin would replace Kristi Noem at Homeland Security, and his note thanked her rather than blaming her. He said nothing about that day's news on the Epstein files, the close House vote on the Iran war, or the deadly tornadoes, and he never showed any anger.

Full digest for 2026-03-05: https://trump.fm/date/2026-03-05/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, March 5). Trump, Zeldin roll back Obama-era climate change... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116177938351998839
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Trump, Zeldin roll back Obama-era climate change rule —..." Truth Social, 5 Mar. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116177938351998839. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Trump, Zeldin roll back Obama-era climate change rule —...," Truth Social, March 5, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116177938351998839.

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